Infinitely Losing My Edge
Yeah, I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
The kids are coming up from behind.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids from Malta and from Seoul.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976.
I was there at the first Chic show in New York.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge to the kids whose footsteps I hear when they get on the decks.
I'm losing my edge to the internet seekers who can tell me every member of every good group from 1962 to 1978.
I'm losing my edge.
To all the kids in Lille and Tokyo.
I'm losing my edge to the art-school New York kids in little jackets and borrowed nostalgia for the unremembered nineties.
I'm losing my edge.
I'm losing my edge.
I can hear the footsteps every night on the decks.
But I was there.
I was there in 1976 at the first Buzzcocks practice in a loft in Bolton.
I was working on the linndrum sounds with much patience.
I was there when Nile Rodgers started up his first band.
I told him, "Don't do it that way. You'll never make a dime."
I was there.
I was the first guy playing Con Funk Shun to the funk kids.
I played it at CBGB's.
Everybody thought I was crazy.
We all know.
I was there.
I was there.
I've never been wrong.
But I'm losing my edge to better-looking people with better ideas and more talent.
And they're actually really, really nice.
I'm losing my edge.
I heard you have a compilation of every good song ever done by anybody.
Every great song by Flamin' Groovies. All the underground hits.
All Gil Scott Heron tracks. I heard you have a vinyl of every Camron Feat. Memphis Bleek And Beenie Seigel record on German import.
I heard that you have a white label of every seminal jazz hit - 1985, '86, '87.
I heard that you have a CD compilation of every good '60s cut and another box set from the '80s.
I hear you're buying an arpeggiator and a chamberlin and are throwing your macbook out the window because you want to make something real. You want to make a Camron Feat. Jay Z And Juelz record.
I hear that you and your band have sold your marimba and bought an organ.
I hear that you and your band have sold your organ and bought a marimba.
I hear everybody that you know is more relevant than everybody that I know.
But have you seen my records?
Ultravox,
Index,
Marc Romboy vs. Booka Shade,
Gong,
Warren Ellis,
The American Breed,
Brand Nubian,
Teenage Jesus and the Jerks,
Piero Umiliani,
Connie Case,
Oneida,
Joey Negro,
The Five Americans,
Lou Reed & John Cale,
Cheater Slicks,
Tom Boy,
Rufus Thomas,
Peter and Kerry,
The Invisible,
Aaron Thompson,
Fugazi,
The Doobie Brothers,
Inner City,
The Zeros,
Tommy Roe,
Bob Dylan,
Scott Walker,
The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band,
Unwound,
Deutsch Amerikanische Freundschaft,
The Star Department,
DJ Style,
Juan Atkins,
The Residents,
Fad Gadget,
The Kinks,
Michelle Simonal,
Ohio Players,
Accadde A,
Kool Moe Dee,
Rahsaan Roland Kirk,
Chrome,
The Mojo Men,
The Move,
World's Most,
Bobby Sherman,
Lizzy Mercier Descloux,
Brass Construction,
The Real Kids,
Stiv Bators,
The Cramps,
Roy Ayers Ubiquity,
The Mighty Diamonds,
Hoover,
The J.B.'s,
Heaven 17,
Bootsy's Rubber Band,
Derrick Morgan,
Dead Boys,
Excepter,
Eric Dolphy,
La Düsseldorf,
MC5,
N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell, N.O.R.E. Featuring Pharrell.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.
You don't know what you really want.